On Tuesday 19 December 2006 22:02, Curtis Rey wrote:
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Why not de-install it and replace it with the findutils?
Findutils are great, of course, and I use find, xargs and locate pretty much daily (locate is in a separate package, by the way: findutils-locate). But those tools are not a replacement for beagle or any other content-based indexing, since findutils and friends see only file names
YEP! As follows
locate something losely what your looking for | grep something more specific
Still, that only finds plain text. If there are multi-byte characters, they won't be found. Have you ever looked at a PDF file? There's a great deal of mark-up (not HTML/XML/SGML-style, but mark-up nonetheless) that interrupts the logical character sequence, and grep and relatives are very likely to miss seeing text that's there. PostScript files likewise. I don't know what OpenOffice and MS word-processing and other proprietary documents look like, but most such formats require the interleaving of formatting information in ways that tends to interfere with plain-text search tools. Diss Beagle all you like (there are alternatives, you know), but plain text tools are very limited in searching for content on a modern computing system.
... Cheers, Curtis.
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